Eric Louie doesn’t have many choices of where to study late at night in DeKalb, other than the library on campus.

“I like to go to Starbucks to study, but it’s only open until 10 [p.m.],” Louie said, a corporate communications major. “If you’re in the middle of studying, you’re already in the zone but you have to pick up and leave. It’s hard to study again somewhere else, unless you’re already at the library.”

Commuting students have more opportunities to study off-campus.

Christa Anderson, junior pre-physical therapy major, said she studies at Barnes and Noble, 2439 Sycamore Road, when she’s off-campus.

“It’s closer to my house than driving all the way back to campus [since] I live in Sycamore, and I commute,” Anderson said.

Some students say it’s too cold to travel anywhere besides to campus.

Jackie Demink, junior nutrition and dietetics major, studies at either the Holmes Student Center or the library.

“The Holmes Student Center has food, and the library is quiet and there’s a lot of table space,” Demink said. “I just get on the bus, and it’s easier to get off at the Holmes Student Center on campus. It’s too cold to go anywhere else.”

Leanne Vandecreek, social science reference librarian at Founders Memorial Library, said there are more students at the library now, at least during the day.

“The reference desk is only open until 9 [p.m.] but I do notice there are a lot more people than before [finals],” Vandecreek said.

Some students are also taking finals for the first time as a college students.

Freshman history major Justin Gieraltowski said he would rather study in his residence hall room than anywhere else.

“I just study in my dorm room; it’s quiet there and I don’t have to go anywhere,” Gieraltowski said. “I live in Grant South. There’s the typing room where you can study. I don’t go there but other people do.”

Many students have a preference of studying at the library.

Anderson said she prefers to study at the library rather than Barnes and Noble .

“I just like the atmosphere at the library,” Anderson said. “It makes you want to study, and it makes you feel you need to study.”